significant risk of human extinction from advancing our system. our series continues to d. w. the big business go on touch nature in the us concerns go over the future as a national conk. the garbage dumps police the environment and drive climate change. but there are alternatives and maritime threats. coupon is arming itself against and as a mode dominant, china, the china is rapid. rise is a global power,

is making its neighbors novice aging is flexing its muscles politically economically. and militarily, the south china sea has long been witness to maritime disputes. china is vastly expanding its plaintive warships, aging squarely and confidence is making waves in the region. if disaster strikes yankee, ren wants to be ready to be strong enough to stand on the front line with a comm rates and defend a country. the 24 year old is lots of japan's best naval unit since the 2nd world war. the island nation once at some previous rapid deployment for gauge to be able to carry out attacks from the sea in a possible future war. that's why there's a pool at the base, whether learning how to escape from a sinking ship yak, even knows what it's like to be trapped on the water to go. the

kiddos are students in my hot races. i wonder if i'll ever make it out. i mean, if i'll ship tips or see, we have to save themselves by about 2 by 18, so we don't get swept away by the water. we'll run out of that. that's why we're training for an evacuation here. it was next day after the trainings of the outbreak of war 2, they believe it's closer than at any time in the last, almost 18. his lucky man is one of 50 women at the space. a unit is training to defend japan's $14000.00 plus islands and recapture them if necessary. we got to join her on her 1st flight. i am so excited. conflict is brewing in the east china sea. china and japan are cleverly of islands whose names few people outside the region have even heard of. but if the dispute what to escalate,

it would impact on lines. international trade rates would be blocked the stats it. it's a turning point for japan as a country where positivism is enshrined in the constitution. that's also reflected in the name of the ministry that japan self defense forces. but the government has made a u. 10 policy triggered by russia's invasion of ukraine. tokyo has ended japan self defense over the principal, and the set to massively increase minute to spending by 2027. so yucky. ren, it's time to dive into the i know this minute treat buildup is very worrying for residential. is she gawky? more than a 1000 columbus is the south of the events base to the oh yeah. must also said to coach gavers her very own version of

a popular folk song. she thinks the sunshine and a mild wind that will bring no more. the 6 year old struggles to climb, they steep puff, but she won't be told towns if coming here. i want to show them the place for people got dumped into those places. uh to me, so the war time, the pacific war and then over there, now they're preparing for the war, send the filter in with no reflections. the war is the past and the war of the future. nowhere else on this island she says to the to come into such shaw release. for her that comes of the japanese armed forces which he's been fighting against is symbolizes the war is the future. the past one is the 2nd world

war, which he experienced as the young go. that's where we will force to be looking for me. okay. so where it was filled with malaria. mosquito is less than a week or so after we moved into that place, there was a money we almost lost that lives island is she got. he is a tropical power dyson to his magnet, nearly 2000 kilometers from tokyo. it's become the front line and the bottle for geo political influence. it's right by this in cuckoo islands, or don't do as china calls them. although uninhabited, these islands are strategically important. whoever controls them controls the regency rates, which is why china also lays claim to the islands that are administered by japan. such a behind the southern most prefecture, which includes issue khaki on to $160.00 other islands forms

a wall to contain china. lots to sol, j yaki bend, while we fly back to the account by helicopter, she has to find a way to show how about excel located in so i see the notes of nagasaki on the east china see it's hard to miss the minute. she presence here in addition to the japanese armed forces, there's also a us submit it to base of japan's nuclear and allies, has decided to set up a new joint force headquarters in japan. you, i'm, is that you said to cohen issue yaki, sees it as an unnecessary publication. she's been protesting at a wrote junction on her island to 8 it's, she's here every sunday until the day i to

all the military leave out of the island. so we're what we're going to find. she says the island mustn't be tuned between 2 superpowers. again, they owe it to the next generation. soldier, yagi man is part of that generation. she's the 1st in her family to join the minute train of thing to turn her love of exercise into a korea. it was empty doing training that she realized the possible consequences of choice sizes and you can make all the clothes. so you all to the front line, the more dangerous it becomes, and then the, if i would like to become someone who helps my comm rates at the front, i'd be lying. if i said i wasn't afraid. but that's exactly why we're doing all of these drilling. now, if we'll stop, i'll be back to that. if i don't. if you one piece prepared for war is the old saying goes, jackie ran and her come rates already to find. but hope it won't come to that.

the in april 2024. a huge fire broke out due to non sol citing. does the poor india, combustible gas is ignited in the amount of trash that dissolves to that could happen elsewhere? to foot scraps, plastic bottles, pizza boxes. think about how many things you throw weight each day, depending on how and where you leave. this might different a lot different indian thought is all 500 trends of garbage every day. for the average american troops to point to keels, by the way, the u. s. as the role champion in waste generation per capita, display of growth along with cds and the rising standard of living. this was part of the problem and goes a pool. in 1984 when the landfill 1st opened, dallas population was not even 7000000. now it is about 34000000 deal. thirty's

weren't ready for that. and on the planet right now, we're 8000000000 people producing 2100000000 tons of rubbish every year. according to this new wednes, 3038 percent ends up where it shouldn't some 2700000000 people like access to basic waste management services. so no protection multiplan disposal due to ramona's, the technical director at the international solid waste association. she's one of the supervisors of this study. so for the lack of those options, what do people end up doing? they take the reast, be stock, the blown on, done paid on speakerphone and dump that we spent. and so this is leading to a practice. there is no precise number for how many such dump sites stay on the planet. but each one is one to many. and it is important to distinguish here between dump sites and landfills. they have different things on site is with is absolutely no environmental control when it drains the water filters through the

waist and fronts leach, it potentially toxic cook tele for many heavy chemicals and back to read among other things that so called of the trash. so leaking into the environment, either to walk a ways your soil is or you and, and by open blending. and so all of these are emissions that are ending up in the environment that are arming. sure. one hand, it's harming the environment. and when i talk about your with health, essentially, if you have contaminated waste is going into a fluid systems under this mountain of thresh, where there is no oxygen. something else is happening. make a tv, a breaking down organic waste and producing meeting one of the worst greenhouse gases in the short term is over 80 times more quote into taking the planet than carbon dioxide. the waste sector accounts for 3 to 5 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions. dump sites and landfills and the biggest contributors in their

defendant, terry landfills, which have more environmental controls to try to mitigate all those problems. they start to, to evolve. and the 20th century, especially in the 2nd half. also because the materials use in our products had become much more toxic to the natural environment. currently the united states has more than 2600 landfills. that's a lot of trash. americans have historically relied on landfills for many reasons. just to name a few, consumption levels are really high. the country has wide open spaces available and using landfills, quite often seen as the cheapest option in the short term. that is why half of the trash produced by americans ends up there. so it's no wonder that the holes, the planets biggest landfill of its kind, according to the genus world records effects landfill, outside of las vegas, it's big enough to accept waste for the next 250 years. landfill operators use several ways to tackle the problems of dumping thresh to protect the ground from

toxic chemicals. they start with a large hole in the ground line with giants in front of the layers of synthetic materials. kind of like a huge into swimming pool with a big plastic sheets in it. at the bottom, there's a drainage system to remove the lead shape that generated sensors can also be placed at the bottom layer to detect any possible leaks after delete this treat that it is turned into a useful water now with days and engineered land. so can also capture most of the meeting and meet it by making a kind of trash livonia. that stops most of it from going to the atmosphere. as the garbage has dumped heavy tractors compact it and then corporate with an impermeable layer dump compact. culver repeat over and over again. then that kind of system of pumps. 6 out most of the gas is generated, including the mid thing. at this points, there are 2 options. the main thing capture can be burned to a process called flaring that turns it from a super harmful greenhouse gas into

a regular home for one c o 2. but this is a huge waste. here comes the 2nd option. method can generate heat, electricity or renewable natural gas compar vehicle. for example, many us landfills use this technologist and we've been here the immediate at altogether. they produce enough equivalent energy to power when meet and homes. this technique, problems to reduce methane emissions by 60 to 90 percent. so problem solved not quite using special infrared cameras on planes and satellites. researches have detected substantial leaks, currents measuring methods which usually rely on ground of cetaceans couldn't detect them. the research has found that us landfills and meet $1.00 times more meetings in official reports. but it's not all bad news. this data can help linfield managers to detect leaks and reduce emissions straight away. however, not all solutions, and this still need to be so high tech that businesses recommendation to reduce methane emissions from landfill is much simpler in more straightforward,

reduce the amount of organic waste in them because the methane emissions from landfills are produced when organic matter decomposes underneath a pile of garbage without oxygen. if we are not going to be, i'm going to destination that with these duct rates. it is that the thoughts probably be situation will talk out. i. this is sharon collie, a scientists. we specialize in waste management in india, being a wildman, wildman. i was in what length is very good for bigger tradition of the city. and so you feel weird, did scientifically and stuff gentlemen. uh, i think we get back to the stop the maintaining admission city in countries like india where around 50 percent of the garbage is what waste avoid them using landfills can be really effective. and some places are being quite successful in implementing this policy. take my sewer, for example, with a population of more than one median. it produces between 40500 tons of waste daily

. the 3rd is designed a decentralized system in which trash gets collected, segregated, and composted inside their neighborhoods. here it is important to remember that composting is primary anaerobic process with oxygen, where micro organisms breakdown organic matter. it can relate small amounts of meeting if it's not properly done. if there isn't enough, be ration. that is white. quite often you'll see people turning the compost regularly in mice to about 50 percent of all waste is combusted for that the collector goes from door to door. residents, them properly separate their trash, do be find. officials say only 5 percent of the trash goes to landfill, their goal is 0 waste video risk management, those like no waste shown go for the plant or the line for you today and simulation plan. so we had completely managing the risk though we tell, receiving from our different blocks of mice, 50 corporation, the combust produced, is sold to local farmers in the horticulture department. when you look around india,

this may feel like a dropping the ocean. but it is a great example that shows it can be done. combusting also sorts out another huge problem, almost one 3rd of the countries farmland surface from slight different nations popular due to the heavy use of chemical fertilizers. now we're getting a compost is being used on farms to restore the land. this is a great example of climbing up the letter of the waste higher key. at the very bottom of it is the worst possible way to get rid of the trash open burning or dumping. that is where the west, the waste we just saw, would probably end up. then comes disposal without an edge of recovery, like kinds of land feeding or incineration. next, this waste energy, which is an umbrella term for a few different methods like the west landfill, we saw generate electricity out of me. thing here comes with psychic. this is where the composting examples are. even better use to reuse things often referred to as up cycling. and at the top of it is prevention and reduction. that bart depends

a lot on the waste producers. so companies as well as individual consumers going up in the bedroom, it is not always easy closing dump sites and making landfill better is a challenge and come to a long process. but it can be done like in rio de janeiro, it once hosted, let in america's biggest dumpsite. judging that, i'm not sure which received over 80000000 tons of cabbage in 30 years. the surrounding monroe forest was devastated by it to locate the opportunity give me much sense and of it. they search for a faith to my my here to keep call laugh place. they showed one shouldn't be bad. we saw the push fellow side, not by edge, went about marty most got at least the biologist responsible for this restoration project. don't. this is think they both of them get that by just was point, you know, truth bit. i'm sure i my, or i did your mind gives the mileage one about it, some safety thing, but it died. usually the main roof forest captures

a huge amount of su to this kind of invitation can absorb up to 4 times more carbon than other forest. and now we use waste goes to modern landfill, outside of the city, the site captures most of its methane emissions. according to the operator generates enough to manage the power seat of $90000.00 residents. it is a modern engineered landfill, which costs at around $19000000.00 us dollars. but that doesn't mean that the problem is solved in nearby grandma. sure there still illegal dump sites. and even in the restoration project itself, there were problems with leaking retreat in 2014, which now seems to have been assaulted. this approach isn't cheap and it's not perfect, but it does have a lot of potential. look at this graphic. it shows regions that's to have a huge number of open dump sites. in this case some experts suggest it's moving from dump sites to lentils would already be a step forward on the top of that separating at least organic trash before sending

it to the landfill. like in missouri is something we can do when a global level of test reducing waste is the top priority to can also be reached worldwide is placed at the top of the pyramids. let's face it right now. we're producing more and more trash worldwide. the power of smart waste management, instead it can reduce costs into low. this is the peak that i was talking about. this is just uh, vegetation that it hasn't completely decayed. it's very viable for the environment . the carbon stored in the soil is equivalent to over $95000000.00 tons of carbon dioxide gas that is found and therefore not driving climate change. the native americans cooled this area, okie pinokie. so this is where the name ok from. okay, the end of the traveling earth comes from because you can see when i bounce on it, that it trembles like that. so i'm actually standing on

a floating pete that right now above the water. that's how it gets. it's cool. 96 then said pete lens, if the protected for almost a 100 years indigenous communities of leave to have lived here for millennia, even some of the swamps. most gabby residents seem all nice peaceful. the ancestors were here before the dinosaurs. the okey dokey is unique because not only its size but how protected it is. so it's, it's huge, right at over $407000.00 acres and the fact that it's not developed that um, the hydrology nature, the animals are still intact. and so what we see is a huge wetland that's fully functional and you just don't see that uh in parts of north america in europe anymore that, that are so heavily developed. but changes as it tree covet, sunday, and stretches for miles along the edge of the swamp, presenting water from draining away. a company wants to mine minerals in the sand.

heavy equipment is already parked in readiness. the company is not willing to talk to us. they appear close to gaining approval for a permit. the state governor is in favor, and so is the environmental authority, because a company report shows no threat to the swamp. shining casa is horrified. she lives on this on june, and is worried about the refuge. that's a little scary to me. i don't, i don't understand why the governor or anybody else would even question in my eyes . it should not be a question of what's mine beside the ball by for a huge address. there's too much to lose there. yeah. for multiple reasons, i mean if you've ever been in the phone, you would understand why it's very peaceful. so serene is just, you know, monitor on the edge of the swamp and possibly drain and of the refuge or the swamp would lead to a lot of things. i mean, for me, it's a lot, it's

a lot more than just one thing. the nearby town of folks in georgia is divided the places seen by today's some hope for more jobs and income from the mine. others want to protect the swamp and attract more terrorists, having the site declared to unesco will have a good site could help. but this plan is facing a surprising amount of resistance, despite arguments that it will increase tourism. i don't think this goes going to increase it a bit. the biggest fear i have of unesco is in it's other locations that it has been associated with. they've been, have started trying to perpetuate rules against the private property owners outside of the boundary the site. they can't do this at no cause it might affect the national park that like taking and we don't want that of the people that live in this community. what their private property rights, and i think that's per,

that's true all over america. true jones is also in safe, or if the mind he works for the local authority and is hoping for more income from taxes just outside the town. he shows us how fine things have become the local hospital closed a few years ago because the town could no longer afford the subsidies or medical needs. they are, you know, infrastructure needs, they help tide. our budget is see that every child in our school system gets free lunch. the minds not will fix all her problems, but this won't fit in either a school. take a multitude of things, i want more tourism as well. i love this mind if they say it's safe. okie pinokie as a refuge for native species to grow. i'm thrive here. a project is space for some spaces and they to love is with just a few, not a couple world ways. nothing is allowed except renewing and fishing, but the economic interests could endanger this pilot on our concern is that if

something like the mine is it goes, it goes forward that it could affect the water levels of the swamp. so we have been told by hydrologist that it could lower the amount of water in the swamp, it could mean more droughts and more frequent grounds. and so that would change the vegetation, it would change the animals that lived there. and our greatest concern is that would affect the number of wildfires we have. it comes down to nature versus the needs of the town. political and business interest estate approval goes ahead. the only hope is that the federal government might be able to intervene to safeguard this natural power dice. would you like more insights and solutions from around the world? if you want to meet the people fighting climate change visit to on facebook, instagram, and take? so the

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